Editor’s Note:Long before Christian Watford’s shot, there was an even bigger one: Keith Smart’s jumper from the wing in 1987.

Everyone remembers The Shot. IU down by one. Six ticks left. Jumper, 16 feet out, Keith Smart fading, fading left to the baseline. Jim Boeheim just wants to forget it, but he can’t. The Syracuse coach has never watched a tape of the game, and he doesn’t need a visual aid to recall the way Smart played. “Everyone talks about the last shot, but he just took over down the stretch,” Boeheim says. “I think he had their last 10 or 11 points.” Actually, Smart put up 15 in the game’s final 12 minutes, but enough reminiscing. Twenty-five years have passed, and there’s a lot of catching up to do. Here’s what Smart and his teammates are up to now.

THE STARTERS

Steve AlfordThen: Senior guard and team co-captain Now: Head coach at the University of New Mexico. “I think everyone on Syracuse thought the last shot was going to him,” says John Feinstein, author of A Season on the Brink, which chronicled IU’s previous season

Rick CallowayThen: Sophomore forward Now: Owner of Alliance Construction, a swimming-pool company in the Houston area

Dean GarrettThen: Junior center Now: Supervisor of racing/sports book at the Flamingo Hotel in Vegas

Keith SmartThen: Junior guard Now: Head coach of the Sacramento Kings. “I bump into people all the time who want to talk about it,” Smart told Deadspin.com in 2009. “I don’t mind. I’ll talk about it as much as they want.”

Daryl ThomasThen: Senior forward and team co-captain Now: Basketball instructor at the Bulls/Sox Academy and assistant coach at a high school near Chicago

THE BENCH

Steve EylThen: Junior forward Now: President of Sound-Elkin, a Carlsbad company that makes equipment for veterinarians

Bob KnightThen: Became only third coach to win three national titles Now: ESPN analyst, and recently put his “seasons on the block” by auctioning off his NCAA national championships rings won at IU and his Olympic gold medal from coaching the U.S. squad.